About — The Alchemist's Lab

About

Jaitesha Hanson

LMHC · Founder, The Alchemist's Lab

I built The Alchemist's Lab around a simple observation: the cases that don't fit anywhere aren't unsolvable. They just require a different kind of looking.

My work centers on complex neurodivergent presentations — specifically the ones where standard approaches have already been tried and something keeps not fitting. High-masking clients. Diagnostic overlaps. Cases where the therapist has done everything right and the case still isn't moving.

Pattern recognition is the foundation of everything I do. Not just "what diagnosis does this match" — but what underlying system of processing, regulation, and lived experience is producing this particular presentation, in this particular person.

This is clinician-to-clinician work. Every case I take is a referral. I work in partnership with the referring therapist — supporting them, not replacing them. The client stays in their established therapeutic relationship throughout.

Credentials & Clinical Background

Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) – Florida
6+ years of clinical experience across outpatient, telehealth, and specialty care settings
Neurodiversity & Assessment Specialist leading clinician training and neuroaffirming assessment implementation
Specialization in neurodivergent assessment, masking, trauma overlap, and unclear presentations
Experience supporting ADHD, Autism, executive functioning, sensory needs, and complex clinical patterns
Certified in AutPlay Therapy and Geek Therapy
TMS Therapy Certified through BrainsWay and Neurostar
Published author and community impact award recipient

This work is not about fixing the case. It’s about creating clarity that shifts it.

Many clinicians feel stuck not because the work isn’t being done, but because the underlying patterns haven’t been clearly identified. Clarity is what allows the work to finally move.

Outside the Lab

I’m also neurodivergent — ADHD and autistic — which means I don’t just study these systems. I live them.

Growing up, I struggled to find support that truly understood how my brain worked. Not because clinicians didn’t care, but because our training systems weren’t built with neurodivergence in mind. That lived experience shaped this work.

Outside of clinical work, I’m usually:

Creating and building new ideas into real systems
Exploring patterns through games, media, and storytelling
Spending time in nature or gardening
Designing spaces that feel both grounded and expansive

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Proprietary Frameworks

The tools behind the work.

REM

Regulation & Engagement Map

A framework for understanding how neurodivergent clients regulate internally — and how their engagement patterns in session, in relationships, and in daily life reveal the underlying nervous system logic driving the presentation.

PEM

Processing & Expression Map

A framework for mapping how individuals process information, experiences, and emotions internally versus externally — and what that reveals about regulation capacity, internal cost, and the disconnect between surface behavior and lived experience.

MAA

Masking-Aware Assessment

A pattern-based assessment approach designed for high-masking presentations — where traditional measures underperform because the client is skilled at appearing functional in ways that obscure what's actually happening underneath.

Note on IP: REM, PEM, and the Masking-Aware Assessment tools are proprietary to The Alchemist's Lab. The Neuro-Affirming Assessment Funnel Framework Version 2.0 was sold via signed IP agreement in January 2026. All subsequent frameworks remain solely owned by Jaitesha Hanson, LMHC and The Alchemist's Lab.